Cambridgeshire-based Fenn Holidays is busily getting together its next holiday brochure. See the operator’s upbeat social media post announcing this here.

Moseley (PCV), the Pontefract dealership for VDL, Indcar and Beulas coaches, has gone into administration with all but eight staff made redundant. The dealership closed its Moseley in the South arm early in the lockdown, with an auction of vehicles based there, but appears to have been unable to keep the business viable. The business […]

Go-Ahead-owned Salisbury Reds has added three new ADL Enviro400 MMC double-deckers to its fleet. The new buses are for use on its activ8 route between Salisbury and Andover. Salisbury Reds MD, Andrew Wickham, said: “These past few months have been particularly challenging, and our team of key workers has been working incredibly hard transporting those […]

Stagecoach is launching a new smartphone “busy bus” indicator to help customers plan their journeys as services increase across the country. The new feature on the Stagecoach bus app will use extensive data and artificial intelligence to provide a traffic light indicator to help customers choose quieter services and maintain social distancing. The app is […]

HCT Group, the former Hackney Community Transport not-for-profit, has posted losses of almost £1.5 million, and breached its covenants, having recorded a £0.89m profit in 2017/18. The annual report also reveals that last year, a ‘cyberattack’ managed to destroy all of its financial data, leaving it to recreate it own figures. In law, companies are […]

  As the country starts easing out of lockdown, Stone King in conjunction with Bus and Coach Buyer led an online seminar to discuss the affects of COVID-19 on the industry. Taking a different style to the standard seminar, ‘The Conversation’ aimed to be just that, a candid discussion about the current situation and its […]

Arriva Bus & Coach has reassured operators that it’s very much in business, following rumours of closure. A spokesman for the company said: “We have recently completed a planned review of Arriva Bus and Coach and are proposing to significantly downsize the business to reduce its costs. “We have now started formal consultation proceedings with […]

Sarjeet Singh, trading as Go Go Transport Services, is to have his restricted PSV operator’s licence revoked on 1 September 2020. In April 2019 Mr Singh attended a public inquiry in Birmingham after DVSA found him to be using a photocopied vehicle disc. In the course of that inquiry, Traffic Commissioner, Nicholas Denton, formed the […]